Sherry Linkon is a professor of English at Georgetown University and a faculty affiliate of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Her book, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing About Economic Restructuring, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2018 and won the Working-Class Studies Association’s 2019 CLR James Award for the year’s best book. She is the editor of Working-Class Perspectives.
